Russian Cities from East to West: Geographic Order

Major Russian cities ordered by longitude (easternmost to westernmost):

  1. Anadyr (Chukotka) — 177°30'E — Far East, Bering Sea
  2. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatka) — 158°38'E — Pacific, volcanoes
  3. Magadan (Magadan Oblast) — 150°48'E — Sea of Okhotsk, Kolyma
  4. Yakutsk (Sakha) — 129°44'E — Lena River, coldest city
  5. Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast) — 104°18'E — Lake Baikal, Trans-Sib
  6. Krasnoyarsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai) — 92°52'E — Yenisey River, aluminum
  7. Novosibirsk (Novosibirsk Oblast) — 82°56'E — Ob River, Siberia's largest
  8. Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) — 60°36'E — Urals, Asia/Europe border
  9. Perm (Perm Krai) — 56°14'E — Kama River, industrial
  10. Kazan (Tatarstan) — 49°07'E — Volga, Kremlin, IT hub
  11. Moscow — 37°37'E — Capital, center of gravity
  12. St. Petersburg — 30°19'E — Baltic, cultural capital
  13. Notes

    • Longitudes approximate city centers
    • Russia spans ~170° longitude (11 time zones)
    • Anadyr to St. Petersburg: ~6,500 km air distance
    • Many smaller cities east of Anadyr (e.g., Egvekinot, Pevek)
    • Kaliningrad (20°30'E) is west of St. Petersburg but an exclave

    Time Zone Context

    Russia uses 11 time zones (UTC+2 to UTC+12). Since 2014, no daylight saving.

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